genus Strelitzia

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Noun

1.genus Strelitzia - small genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves resembling those of banana plants; sometimes placed in family MusaceaeStrelitzialiliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedfamily Strelitziaceae, strelitzia family, Strelitziaceae - woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family MusaceaeStrelitzia reginae, bird of paradise - ornamental plant of tropical South Africa and South America having stalks of orange and purplish-blue flowers resembling a bird